Peer-Reviewed Publications
In Press
Brooks, P. P., Guzman, B. A., Kensinger, E. A., Norman, K. A., & Ritchey, M. (2024). Eye tracking evidence for the reinstatement of emotionally negative and neutral memories. PloS one, 19(5), e0303755. link
Cho, I., Cunningham, T.J., Daley, R.T., Kensinger, E.A. & Gutchess, A. (in press). Empathy, memory, and aging during the COVID-19 pandemic. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology. link
Daley, R. T., Bowen, H. J., Fields, E. C., Parisi, K. R., Gutchess, A., & Kensinger, E. A. (2023). Individual differences in older adult frontal lobe function relate to memory and neural activity for self-relevant and emotional content. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, gbad186. Advance online publication. link
Ford, J.H., Daley, R.T., & Kensinger , E. (in press). The benefits of socioemotional learning strategies and video formats for older digital immigrants learning a novel smartphone application. Frontiers in Aging
Niu, X., Utayde, M.F., Sanders, K.E.G., Cunningham, T.J., Zhang, G., Kensinger, E.A., & Payne, J.D. (in press). The Effects of shared, depression-specific, and anxiety-specific internalizing symptoms on negative and neutral episodic memories following post-learning sleep. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience.
Schiller, D, Yu, A. N. C., Alia-Klein, N., Becker, S., ….Kensinger, E… Lowe, L. (2024). The Human Affectome. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 158, 105450. link
Viher, P. V., Seitz-Holland, J., Schulz, M. S., Kensinger, E. A., Karmacharya, S., Swisher, T., Lyall, A. E., Makris, N., Bouix, S., Shenton, M. E., Kubicki, M., & Waldinger, R. J. (2024). More organized white matter is associated with positivity bias in older adults. Brain imaging and behavior, 10.1007/s11682-024-00850-5. Advance online publication. link
2023
Daley, R. T., & Kensinger, E. A. (2023). Cognitive decline, socioemotional change, or both? How the science of aging can inform future research on sacrificial moral dilemmas. Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition, 30(2), 272–299. link
Daley, R. T., Kensinger, E. A., Cunningham, T. J., & Ford, J. H. (2023). Me, myself, and everyone else: Potential impacts of episodic processes on national and personal memories. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 12(1), 34–37. link
Drummond, S. P. A., Wiley, J. F., Boardman, J. M., Aidman, E., Kensinger, E. A., & Cunningham, T. J. (2023). Trait-level cognitive and psychological factors associated with longitudinal resilience to sleep disturbance under chronic stress. Sleep, 46(1), zsac249. https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsac249
Ford, J. H., Fields, E. C., Garcia, S. M., Cunningham, T. J., & Kensinger, E. A. (2023). Perceived event resolution-rather than time-allows older adults to reduce the negativity of their memories. Memory (Hove, England), 31(3), 421–427. link
Garcia, S. M., Ritchey, M., & Kensinger, E. A. (2023). How list composition affects the emotional enhancement of memory in younger and older adults. Cognition & emotion, 1–18. Advance online publication. link
Martinez, B. S., Denis, D., Kim, S. Y., DiPietro, C. H., Stare, C., Kensinger, E. A., & Payne, J. D. (2023). The effects of cognitive reappraisal and sleep on emotional memory formation. Cognition & emotion, 37(5), 942–958. link
Niu, X., Utayde, M. F., Sanders, K. E. G., Denis, D., Kensinger, E. A., & Payne, J. D. (2024). Age-related positivity effect in emotional memory consolidation from middle age to late adulthood. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 18, 1342589. link
2022
Bottary, R., Fields, E. C., Kensinger, E. A., & Cunningham, T. J. (2022). Age and chronotype influenced sleep timing changes during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of sleep research, 31(2), e13495. link
Budson, A. E., Richman, K. A., & Kensinger, E. A. (2022). Consciousness as a Memory System. Cognitive and behavioral neurology : official journal of the Society for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology, 35(4):263-297. link
Cho, I., Daley, R. T., Cunningham, T. J., Kensinger, E. A., & Gutchess, A. (2022). Aging, Empathy, and Prosocial Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, 77(4), e57–e63. link
Cunningham TJ, Stickgold R and Kensinger EA (2022) Investigating the effects of sleep and sleep loss on the different stages of episodic emotional memory: A narrative review and guide to the future. Front. Behav. Neurosci. 16:910317. link
Cunningham, T. J., Fields, E. C., Denis, D., Bottary, R., Stickgold, R., & Kensinger, E. A. (2022). How the 2020 US Presidential election impacted sleep and its relationship to public mood and alcohol consumption. Sleep health, 8(6), 571–579. link
Daley, R. T., & Kensinger, E. A. (2022). Age-related differences in Default Mode Network resting-state functional connectivity but not gray matter volume relate to sacrificial moral decision-making and working memory performance. Neuropsychologia, 177, 108399. link
Daley, R. T., Cunningham, T. J., & Kensinger, E. A. (2022). Moral decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic: Associations with age, negative affect, and negative memory. Frontiers in psychology, 13, 974933. link
Denis, D., Kim, S. Y., Kark, S. M., Daley, R. T., Kensinger, E. A., & Payne, J. D. (2022). Slow oscillation-spindle coupling is negatively associated with emotional memory formation following stress. The European journal of neuroscience, 55(9-10), 2632–2650. link
Denis, D., Sanders, K., Kensinger, E. A., & Payne, J. D. (2022). Sleep preferentially consolidates negative aspects of human memory: Well-powered evidence from two large online experiments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(44), e2202657119. link
Fields, E. C., Kensinger, E. A., Garcia, S. M., Ford, J. H., & Cunningham, T. J. (2022). With age comes well-being: older age associated with lower stress, negative affect, and depression throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Aging & mental health, 26(10), 2071–2079. link
Ford, J. H., Kim, S. Y., Kark, S. M., Daley, R. T., Payne, J. D., & Kensinger, E. A. (2022). Distinct stress-related changes in intrinsic amygdala connectivity predict subsequent positive and negative memory performance. The European journal of neuroscience, 56(6), 4744–4765. link
Williams, S. E., Ford, J. H., & Kensinger, E. A. (2022). The power of negative and positive episodic memories. Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience, 1–35. Advance online publication. link
Thakral, P. P., Bottary, R., & Kensinger, E. A. (2022). Representing the Good and Bad: fMRI signatures during the encoding of multisensory positive, negative, and neutral events. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior, 151, 240–258. link
2021–2022
Cunningham TJ, Fields EC, Garcia S, & Kensinger EA (2021). The relation between age and experienced stress, worry, affect, and depression during the spring 2020 phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Emotion, 21(8):1660-1670. doi: 10.1037/emo0000982
Cunningham, T. J., Fields, E. C., & Kensinger, E. A. (2021). Boston College daily sleep and well-being survey data during early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific data, 8(1), 110. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00886-y
Cunningham TJ, Mattingly SM, Tlatenchi A, Wirth MM, Alger SE, Kensinger EA & Payne JD (2021). Higher post-encoding cortisol benefits the selective consolidation of emotional aspects of memory. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 180, 107411.
Daley, R. T., & Kensinger, E. A. (2021). Cognitive decline, socioemotional change, or both? How the science of aging can inform future research on sacrificial moral dilemmas. Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition, 1–28. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2021.2019183
Fields, E. C., Bowen, H. J., Daley, R. T., Parisi, K. R., Gutchess, A., & Kensinger, E. A. (2021). An ERP investigation of age differences in the negativity bias for self-relevant and non-self-relevant stimuli. Neurobiology of aging, 103, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2021.02.009
Ford, J. H., Garcia, S. M., Fields, E. C., Cunningham, T. J., & Kensinger, E. A. (2021). Older adults remember more positive aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychology and aging, 36(6), 694–699. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000636
Jeye, B. M., Kark, S. M., Spets, D. S., Moo, L. R., Kensinger, E. A., & Slotnick, S. D. (2021). Support for an inhibitory model of word retrieval. Neuroscience letters, 755, 135876. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2021.135876
Kensinger EA & Ford JH (2021). Guiding the emotion in emotional memories: The role of the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 30(2), 111-119. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721421990081
Yeh, N., Payne, J. D., Kim, S. Y., Kensinger, E. A., Koen, J. D., & Rose, N. S. (2021). Medial prefrontal cortex has a causal role in selectively enhanced consolidation of emotional memories after a 24-hour delay: A TBS study. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 41(29), 6273–6280. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2599-20.2021
2020
Bowen, H. J., Marchesi, M. L., & Kensinger, E. A. (2020). Reward motivation influences response bias on a recognition memory task. Cognition, 203, 104337. link
Daley, R. T., Bowen, H. J., Fields, E. C., Parisi, K. R., Gutchess, A., & Kensinger, E. A. (2020). Neural mechanisms supporting emotional and self-referential information processing and encoding in older and younger adults. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 15(4), 405–421.
Daley RT, Bowen HJ, Fields EC, Gutchess A, & Kensinger EA (2020). Age differences in ventromedial prefrontal cortex functional connectivity during socioemotional content processing. Social Behavior and Personality, 48(7), 1-19.
Kark, S. M., Slotnick, S. D., & Kensinger, E. A. (2020). Forgotten but not gone: FMRI evidence of implicit memory for negative stimuli 24 hours after the initial study episode. Neuropsychologia, 136, 107277. link
Kensinger, E. A., & Ford, J. H. (2020). Retrieval of Emotional Events from Memory. Annual review of psychology, 71, 251–272. link
Kim, S. Y., Kark, S. M., Daley, R. T., Alger, S. E., Rebouças, D., Kensinger, E. A., & Payne, J. D. (2020). Interactive effects of stress reactivity and rapid eye movement sleep theta activity on emotional memory formation. Hippocampus, 30(8), 829–841. link
Madan, C. R., Knight, A. G., Kensinger, E. A., & Mickley Steinmetz, K. R. (2020). Affect enhances object-background associations: evidence from behaviour and mathematical modelling. Cognition & emotion, 34(5), 960–969. preprint
2019
Bowen HJ, Fields EC, & Kensinger EA. (2019). Prior emotional context modulates early event-related potentials to neutral retrieval cues. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 31(11), 1755-1767. link
Cooper RA, Kensinger EA, Ritchey M (2019). Memories fade: The relationship between memory vividness and remembered visual salience. Psychological Science, 30(5), 657–668. link
Ford JH, Kensinger EA (2019). The role of the amygdala in emotional experience during retrieval of personal memories. Memory, 27(10), 1362-1370. link
Ford, J. H., & Kensinger, E. A. (2019). Older adults recruit dorsomedial prefrontal cortex to decrease negativity during retrieval of emotionally complex real-world events. Neuropsychologia, 135, 107239. link
Ford, J. H., & Kensinger, E. A. (2019). Age-by-Emotion Interactions in Memory Retrieval Processes: An Event-Related Potential Study. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, 74(7), 1101–1110. link
Kark, S., & Kensinger EA (2019). Post-encoding Amygdala-Visuosensory Coupling Is Associated with Negative Memory Bias in Healthy Young Adults. Journal of Neuroscience, 39(16), 3130-3143. link
Kark, S. M., & Kensinger, E. A. (2019). Physiological arousal and visuocortical connectivity predict subsequent vividness of negative memories. Neuroreport, 30(12), 800–804. link
Madan C, Scott S, & Kensinger EA (2019). Positive emotion enhances association-memory. Emotion, 19(4), 733-740 preprint
2018
Allard ES, Kensinger EA. (2018). Cognitive emotion regulation in adulthood and old age: positive gaze preferences across two strategies. Neuropsychol Dev Cogn B Aging Neuropsychol Cogn, 25(2), 213-230. link
Alger SE, Kensinger EA, Payne JD. (2018). Preferential consolidation of emotionally salient information during a nap is preserved in middle age. Neurobiol Aging, 68, 34-47. link
Bowen HJ, Kark SM, Kensinger EA. (2018) NEVER forget: negative emotional valence enhances recapitulation. Psychon Bull Rev, 25(3), 870-891. link
Ford JH, DiBiase HD, Kensinger EA (2018). Finding the good in the bad: age and event experience relate to the focus on positive aspects of a negative event. Cognition and Emotion, 32(2), 414-421. link
Ford JH, DiBiase HD, Ryu E, Kensinger EA. (2018). It gets better with time: Enhancement of age-related positivity effect in the six months following a highly negative public event. Psychol Aging, 33(3), 419-424. link
Ford JH, Kensinger EA. (2018). Older adults use a prefrontal regulatory mechanism to reduce negative memory vividness of a highly emotional real-world event. Neuroreport, 29(13), 1129-1134. link
Gutchess A, Kensinger EA (2018). Shared Mechanisms May Support Mnemonic Benefits from Self-Referencing and Emotion. Trends Cogn Sci, 22(8), 712-724. link
Madan CR, Kensinger EA (2018). Predicting age from cortical structure across the lifespan. European Journal of Neuroscience, 47(5), 399-416. link
Payne JD, Kensinger EA (2018). Stress, sleep, and the selective consolidation of emotional memories. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 19, 36-43. link
2017
Bennion KA, Payne JD, Kensinger EA. (2017). Residual effects of emotion are reflected in enhanced visual activity after sleep. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci, 17(2), 290-304. link
Bowen HJ, Kensinger EA. Recapitulation of emotional source context during
memory retrieval. (2017). Cortex, 91:142-156. link
Bowen HJ, Kensinger EA.(2017). Memory-related functional connectivity in visual processing regions varies by prior emotional context. Neuroreport, 28(13), 808-813. link
Bowen HJ, Kensinger EA (2017). Cash or Credit? Compensation in Psychology Studies: Motivation Matters. Collabra: Psychology, 3(1). link
Choi HY, Kensinger EA, Rajaram S. (2017). Mnemonic transmission, social contagion, and emergence of collective memory: Influence of emotional valence, group structure, and information distribution. J Exp Psychol Gen, 146(9), 1247-1265. link
Ford JH, Kensinger EA. (2017). Prefrontally-mediated alterations in the retrieval of negative events: Links to memory vividness across the adult lifespan. Neuropsychologia, 102, 82-94. link
Ford JH, Kensinger EA. (2017). Age-Related Reversals in Neural Recruitment across Memory Retrieval Phases. J Neurosci, 37(20), 5172-5182. link
Gaesser B, DiBiase HD, Kensinger EA. (2017). A role for affect in the link between episodic simulation and prosociality. Memory, 25(8), 1052-1062. link
Kensinger EA, Gutchess AH. (2017). Cognitive Aging in a Social and Affective Context: Advances Over the Past 50 Years. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci, 72(1):61-70. link
Krendl AC, Zucker HR, Kensinger EA. (2017). Examining the effects of emotion regulation on the ERP response to highly negative social stigmas. Soc Neurosci, 12(3), 349-360. link
Madan CR, Kensinger EA. (2017). Test-retest reliability of brain morphology estimates. Brain Inform, 4(2):107-121. link
Madan CR, Kensinger EA. (2017). Age-related differences in the structural complexity of subcortical and ventricular structures. Neurobiol Aging, 50, 87-95. link
Waring JD, Dimsdale-Zucker HR, Flannery S, Budson AE, Kensinger EA. (2017). Effects of mild cognitive impairment on emotional scene memory. Neuropsychologia, 96, 240-248. link
2016
Bennion KA, Payne JD, & Kensinger EA (2016). The impact of napping on memory for future-relevant stimuli: Prioritization among multiple salience cues. Behavioral Neuroscience, 130(3), 281-9. link
Ford JH & Kensinger EA (2016). Effects of internal and external vividness on hippocampal connectivity during memory retrieval. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 134 Pt A, 78-90. link
Ford JH, DiGirolamo M, & Kensinger EA (2016). Age influences the relation between subjective valence ratings and emotional word use during autobiographical memory retrieval. Memory, 24(8), 1023-32. link
Kark SM, Slotnick SD & Kensinger EA (2016). Repetition enhancement of amygdala and visual cortex functional connectivity reflects nonconscious memory for negative visual stimuli. J Cogn Neurosci, 28(12), 1933-1946. link
Kensinger EA, Choi H-Y, Murray BD, & Rajaram S (2016). How social interactions affect emotional memory accuracy: Evidence from collaborative retrieval and social contagion paradigms. Memory and Cognition, 44(5), 706-16. link
Krendl AC & Kensinger EA (2016). Does older adults' cognitive function disrupt the malleability of their attitudes toward outgroup members? An fMRI investigation. PLoS One, 11(4), e0152698. link
Madan CR & Kensinger EA (2016). Cortical complexity as a measure of age-related brain atrophy. Neuroimage, 134, 617-629. link corrigendum
Mickley Steinmetz KR, Knight A, & Kensinger EA (2016). Neutral details associated with emotional events are encoded: Evidence from a cued recall paradigm. Cognition and Emotion, 30(7), 1352-60. link
Thakral P, Kensinger EA, & Slotnick SD (2016). Familiarity and priming are mediated by overlapping neural substrates. Brain Research, 1632, 107-18. link
2015
Bennion KA, Mickley Steinmentz KR, Kensinger EA, & Payne JD (2015). Sleep and cortisol interaction to support memory consolidation. Cerebral Cortex, 25(3), 646-657. link
Bennion KA, Payne JD, & Kensinger EA (2015). The selective effects of sleep on emotional memory: What mechanisms are responsible? Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 1, 79–88. link
Kark SM, & Kensinger EA (2015). Effect of emotional valence on retrieval-related recapitulation of encoding activity in the ventral visual stream. Neuropsychologia, 78, 221-230. link
Kensinger EA (2015). The future can shape memory for the present. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 19(4), 179-180. link
Krendl AC, Ambady N, & Kensinger EA (2015). The dissociable effects of stereotype threat on older adults’ memory encoding and retrieval. Journal of Applied Research on Memory and Cognition, 4(2), 103-109. link
Murray BD, Anderson MC, & Kensinger EA (2015). Older adults can suppress unwanted memories when given an appropriate strategy. Psychology and Aging, 30(1), 9-25. link
Payne JD, Kensinger EA, Wamsley E, Spreng RN, Alger S, Gibler K, Schacter DL, & Stickgold R (2015). Napping and the selective consolidation of negative aspects of scenes. Emotion, 15(2), 176-186. link
2014
Allard ES & Kensinger EA (2014). Age-related differences in neural recruitment during the use of cognitive reappraisal and selective attention as emotion regulation strategies. Frontiers in Emotion Science, 5, 296. link
Bennion KA, Mickley Steinmetz KR, Kensinger EA, & Payne JD (2014). Eye tracking, cortisol, and a sleep versus wake consolidation delay: Combining methods to uncover an interactive effect of sleep and cortisol on memory. Journal of Visualized Experiments, June 18, 88. link
Cunningham T J, Chambers AM, & Payne JD (2014). Prospection and emotional memory: how expectation affects emotional memory formation following sleep and wake. Frontiers in psychology, 5, 862. link
Cunningham TJ, Crowell CR, Alger SE, Kensinger EA, Villano MA, Mattingly SM, & Payne JD (2014). Psychophysiological arousal at encoding leads to reduced reactivity but enhanced emotional memory following sleep. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 114C, 155-164. pdf
Ford JH, Morris JA, & Kensinger EA (2014). Effects of emotion and emotional valence on the neural correlates of episodic memory search and elaboration. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26, 825-839. link
Ford JH & Kensinger EA (2014). The relation between structural and functional connectivity depends on age and on task goals. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 307. link
Mickley Steinmetz KR, Waring JD, & Kensinger EA (2014). The effect of divided attention on emotion-induced memory narrowing. Cognition and Emotion, 28, 881-892. link
Murray BD & Kensinger EA (2014). Age-related changes in associative memory for emotional and non-emotional integrative representations. Psychology and Aging, 28, 969-983. link
Morris JA, Leclerc CM, & Kensinger EA (2014). Effects of valnce and divided attention on cognitive reappraisal processes.Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 1952-1961. link
Waring JD, Seiger A, Solomon P, Budson A, & Kensinger EA (2014). Memory for the 2008 Presidential election in healthy aging and Mild Cognitive Impairment. Cognition and Emotion, 1407-1421. link
Murray BD & Kensinger EA (2014). The route to an integrative associative memory is influenced by emotion. PLoS One. Jan 10; 9(1): e82372.link
2013
Bennion KA, Ford JH, Murray BD, & Kensinger EA (2013). Oversimplification in the study of emotional memory. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society,19, 953-961. pdf
Choi, H-Y ,Kensinger EA, & Rajaram S (2013). Emotional content enhances true but not false memory for categorized stimuli. Memory and Cognition, 41, 403-15. link
Holland AC & Kensinger EA (2013). The neural correlates of cognitive reappraisal during emotional autobiographical memory recall. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25(1):87-108. link
Holland AC & Kensinger EA (2013). An fMRI investigation of the cognitive reappraisal of negative memories. Neuropsychologia, 51, 2389-2400. link
Mickley Steinmetz KR & Kensinger EA (2013). The emotion-induced memory trade-off: More than an effect of overt attention? Memory and Cognition, 41(1):69-81. link
Murray BD & Kensinger EA (2013). A review of the neural and behavioral consequences for unitizing emotional and neutral information. Froniers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 7, 42. link
Murray, B. D., & Kensinger, E. A. (2013). Age-related changes in associative memory for emotional and nonemotional integrative representations. Psychology and aging, 28(4), 969–983. pdf
Waring JD, Addis DR, & Kensinger EA (2013). Effects of aging on neural connectivity underlying selective memory for emotional scenes. Neurobiology of Aging, 34(2):451-67. link
2012
Holland AC & Kensinger EA (2012). Younger, middle-aged, and older adults' memories for the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 1(3):163-170. pdf
Krendl AC, Kensinger EA, & Ambady N (2012). How does the brain regulate negative bias to stigma? Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 7, 715-726. pdf
Mickley Steinmetz KR, Scott LA, Smith D, & Kensinger EA (2012). The effect of trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on the emotion-induced memory trade-off. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 6, 34. pdf
Mickley Steinmetz KR, Schmidt K, Zucker HR, & Kensinger EA (2012). The effect of emotional arousal and retention delay on subsequent-memory effects. Cognitive Neuroscience, 3, 150-159. pdf
Murray BD & Kensinger EA (2012). The effects of emotion and encoding strategy on associative memory. Memory and Cognition, 40, 1056-1069. pdf
Payne JD, Chambers AM, & Kensinger EA (2012). Sleep promotes lasting changes in selective memory for emotional scenes. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 6, 108. pdf
2011
Holland AC, Addis DR, & Kensinger EA (2011). The neural correlates of specific versus general autobiographical memory construction and elaboration. Neuropsychologia, 49, 3164-3177. pdf
Kensinger EA, Addis DR, & Atapattu RK (2011). Amygdala activity at encoding corresponds with memory for select episodic details. Neuropsychologia, 49, 663-673. pdf
Leclerc CM & Kensinger EA (2011). Neural processing of emotional pictures and words: A comparison of young and older adults. Developmental Neuropsychology, 36, 519-538. pdf
Murray BD, Muscatell KA, & Kensinger EA (2011). Effects of emotion and age on performance during a think/no-think memory task. Psychology and Aging, 26, 940-955. pdf
Payne JD & Kensinger EA (2011). Sleep leads to changes in the emotional memory trace: Evidence from fMRI. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 1285-1297. pdf
Pierce BH, & Kensinger EA (2011). Effects of emotion on associative recognition: valence and retention interval matter. Emotion, 11, 139-144. pdf
Schmidt K, Patnaik P, & Kensinger EA (2011). Emotion’s influence on memory for spatial and temporal context. Cognition and Emotion, 25, 229-243. pdf
Steinberger A, Payne JD, & Kensinger EA (2011). The effect of cognitive reappraisal on the emotional memory trade-off. Cognition and Emotion, 25, 1237-45. pdf
Waldinger R, Kensinger EA, & Schultz M (2011). Neural activity, neural connectivity, and the encoding of emotionally-valenced information in older adults: Links with life satisfaction. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 11, 426-36. pdf
Waring JD & Kensinger EA (2011). How emotion leads to selective memory: Neuroimaging evidence. Neuropsychologia, 49, 1831-42. pdf
Weierich MR, Kensinger EA, Munnell AH, Sass SA, Dickerson BC, Wright CI, & Barrett LF. (2011). Older and wiser? An affective science perspective on retirement decisions. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 6, 195-206. pdf
2010
Addis DR, Leclerc, CM, Muscatell K, & Kensinger EA (2010). There are age-related changes in neural connectivity during the successful encoding of positive, but not negative, information. Cortex, 46, 425-433. pdf
Feldman Barrett L & Kensinger EA (2010). Context is routinely encoded during emotion perception. Psychological Science, 21, 595-9. link
Giovanello KS, Kensinger EA, Wong AT, & Schacter DL (2010). Age-related neural changes during memory conjunction errors. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 1348-1361. pdf
Gutchess AH, Kensinger EA, & Schacter DL (2010). Functional neuroimaging of self-referential encoding with age. Neuropsychologia, 48, 211-219. pdf
Holland AC & Kensinger EA (2010). Emotion and autobiographical memory. Physics of Life Review, 7, 88-131.link
Holland AC & Kensinger EA (2010). The importance of regulatory goal states for autobiographical memory: A reply to Levine and Rubin. Physics of Life Review, 7, 136-138. link
Holland AC, Tamir M & Kensinger EA (2010). The effect of regulation goals on emotional event specific knowledge. Memory, 18, 504-521. pdf
Leclerc CM & Kensinger EA (2010). Age-Related Valence-Based Reversal in Recruitment of Medial Prefrontal Cortex on a Visual Search Task. Social Neuroscience, 5, 560-576. pdf
Mickley Steinmetz KR, Addis DR, & Kensinger EA (in press). The effect of arousal on the emotional memory network depends on valence. NeuroImage, 53, 318-324. link
Mickley Steinmetz KR, Muscatell KA, & Kensinger EA (2010). The effect of valence on young and older adults' attention in a Rapid Serial Visual Presentation task. Psychology and Aging , 25, 239-245. pdf
Muscatell KA, Addis DR, & Kensinger EA (2010). Self-involvement modulates the effective connectivity of the autobiographical memory network. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 5, 68-76. pdf
Payne JD & Kensinger EA (2010). Sleep's role in the consolidation of emotional episodic memories. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 19, 290-295. pdf
Waring JD, Payne JD, Schacter DL, & Kensinger EA (2010). Impact of individual differences upon emotion-induced memory trade-offs. Cognition and Emotion, 24, 150-167.pdf
2009
Addis DR, Leclerc CM, Muscatell KA, Kensinger EA. There are age-related changes in neural connectivity during the encoding of positive, but not negative, information. CORTEX (2009), doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.04.011 pdf
Kensinger EA & Choi ES (2009). Hemispheric processing and the visual specificity of emotional memories. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35, 247-253. pdf
Kensinger EA (2009). What factors need to be considered to understand emotional memories? Emotion Review, 1, 116-118. pdf
Kensinger EA (2009). Remembering the details: Effects of emotion. Emotion Review, 1, 99-113. pdf
Kensinger EA (2009). How emotion affects older adults' memories for event details. Memory, 17, 208-219. pdf
Kensinger EA & Leclerc CM (2009). Age-related changes in the neural mechanisms supporting emotion processing and emotional memory. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 21, 192-215.
Krendl AC, Heatherton TD, & Kensinger EA (2009). Aging minds and twisting attitudes: An fMRI investigation of age differences in inhibiting prejudice. Psychology and Aging 24,530-541. pdf.
Mickley KR & Kensinger EA (2009). Phenomenological characteristics of emotional memories in younger and older adults. Memory, 17,528-543. pdf
Mickley Steinmetz KR & Kensinger EA (2009). The effects of valence and arousal on the neural activity leading to subsequent memory. Psychophysiology, 46, 1190-1199. pdf
Waring JD & Kensinger EA (2009). Effects of emotional valence and arousal upon memory trade-offs with aging. Psychology and Aging, 24, 412-422. pdf
2008
Kensinger EA & Corkin (2008). Amnesia: Point and Counterpoint. In R. Menzel (Ed.), Learning Theory and Behavior, Vol. 1 of Learning and Memory - A Comprehensive Reference, 4 vols. (J. Byrne, Ed.). Oxford: Elsevier Press. (pp. 259-286). pdf
Kensinger EA (2008). How emotion affects older adults' memories for event details. Memory, 17, 1-12. pdf
Kensinger EA (2008). Age differences in memory for arousing and nonarousing emotional words. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 63, P13-18. pdf
Kensinger EA & Schacter DL (2008). Memory and Emotion. In M. Lewis, J. M. Haviland-Jones and L. F. Barrett (Eds.), The Handbook of Emotion, 3rd Edition. New York: Guilford. pdf
Kensinger EA & Schacter DL (2008). Neural processes supporting young and older adults' emotional memories. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 1161-1173. pdf
Leclerc CM & Kensinger EA (2008). Effects of age on detection of emotional information. Psychology and Aging, 23, 209-215. pdf
Leclerc CM & Kensinger EA (2008). Age-related differences in medial prefrontal activation in response to emotional images. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, 153-164. pdf
Mickley KR & Kensinger EA (2008). Neural processes supporting subsequent recollection and familiarity of emotional items. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, 143-152. pdf
Payne JD, Stickgold R, Swanberg K, & Kensinger EA (2008). Sleep and memory consolidation for complex emotional scenes. Psychological Science. pdf
2007
Gutchess AH, Kensinger EA, & Schacter DL (2007). Aging, self-referencing, and medial prefrontal cortex. Social Neuroscience, 2,117-133. pdf
Gutchess AH, Kensinger EA, Yoon C, & Schacter DL (2007). Ageing and the self-reference effect in memory. Memory, 15, 822-837. pdf
Kensinger EA (2007). Age differences in memory for arousing and nonarousing emotional words. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences. pdf
Kensinger EA (2007). Negative emotion enhances memory accuracy: Behavioral and neuroimaging evidence. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16, 213-218. pdf
Kensinger EA, Garoff-Eaton RJ, & Schacter DL (2007). Effects of emotion on memory specificity in young and older adults. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Science, 62, 208-215. pdf
Kensinger EA, Garoff-Eaton RJ, & Schacter DL (2007). Effects of emotion on memory specificity: Memory trade-offs elicited by negative visually arousing stimuli. Journal of Memory and Language, 56, 575-591. pdf
Kensinger EA, Garoff-Eaton RJ, & Schacter DL (2007). How negative emotion enhances the visual specificity of a memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 1872-1887. pdf
Kensinger EA, Garoff-Eaton RJ, & Schacter DL (2007). Remembering the specific visual details of presented objects: Neuroimaging evidence for effects of emotion. Neuropsychologia, 45, 2951-2962. pdf
Kensinger EA, Gutchess AH, & Schacter DL (2007). Effects of aging and encoding instructions on emotion-induced memory trade-offs. Psychology and Aging, 22, 781-795. pdf
Kensinger EA, O'Brien J, Swanberg K, Garoff-Eaton RJ, & Schacter DL (2007). The effects of emotional content on reality-monitoring performance in young and older adults. Psychology and Aging, 22, 752-764. pdf
Schacter DL, Gallo DA, & Kensinger EA (2007). The cognitive neuroscience of implicit and false memories: Perspectives on processing specificity. In J.S. Naime (Ed.) The foundations of remembering: Essays honoring Henry L. Roediger III (pp. 353-377). New York: Psychology Press. pdf
2006
Budson AE, Todman RW, Chong H, Adams EH, Kensinger EA, Krandl TS & Wright CI (2006). False recognition of emotional word lists in aging and Alzheimer's disease. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 19, 71-78. pdf
Gallo DA, Kensinger EA, & Schacter DL (2006). Prefrontal activity and diagnostic monitoring of memory retrieval: fMRI of the criterial recollection task. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 135-148. pdf
Kensinger EA (2006). Remembering emotional information: effects of aging and Alzheimer's disease. Progress in Alzheimer's Disease Research. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc. pdf
Kensinger EA, Garoff-Eaton RJ, & Schacter DL (2006). Memory for specific visual details can be enhanced by negative arousing content. Journal of Memory and Language, 54, 99-112. pdf
Kensinger EA, Krendl AC, & Corkin S (2006). Memories of an emotional and a nonemotional event: Effects of aging and delay interval. Experimental Aging Research, 32, 23-45. pdf
Kensinger EA & Schacter DL (2006). Amygdala activity is associated with the successful encoding of item, but not source, information for positive and negative stimuli. Journal of Neuroscience, 26, 2564-2570. pdf
Kensinger EA & Schacter DL (2006). Neural processes underlying memory attribution on a reality-monitoring task. Cerebral Cortex, 16, 1126-1133. pdf
Kensinger EA & Schacter DL (2006). Reality monitoring and memory distortion: Effects of negative, arousing content. Memory and Cognition, 34, 251-260. pdf
Kensinger EA & Schacter DL (2006). Processing emotional pictures and words: Effects of valence and arousal. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 6, 110-126. pdf
Kensinger EA & Schacter DL (2006). When the Red Sox shocked the Yankees: Comparing negative and positive memories. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 13, 757-763. pdf
2004-2005
2005
Kensinger EA & Giovanello KS (2005). The status of semantic and episodic memory in amnesia. Progress in Neuropsychology Research: Brain Mapping and Language. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc. pdf
Kensinger EA, Piguet O, Krendl AC, & Corkin S (2005). Memory for contextual details: Effects of emotion and aging. Psychology and Aging, 20, 241-250. pdf
Kensinger EA & Schacter DL (2005). Retrieving accurate and distorted memories: Neuroimaging evidence for effects of emotion. NeuroImage, 27, 167-177. pdf
Kensinger EA & Schacter DL (2005). Emotional content and reality-monitoring ability: FMRI evidence for the influences of encoding processes. Neuropsychologia, 43, 1429-1443. pdf
2004
Kensinger EA (2004). Remembering emotional experiences: The contribution of valence and arousal. Reviews in the Neurosciences, 15, 241-251. pdf
Kensinger EA, Anderson A, Growdon JH, & Corkin S (2004). Effects of Alzheimer disease on memory for verbal emotional information. Neuropsychologia, 42, 791-800. pdf
Kensinger EA & Corkin S (2004). Cognition in Aging and Age-Related Disease. In Adelman G and Smith BH (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (Web, CD-Rom)New York: Elsevier Press. pdf
Kensinger EA & Corkin S (2004). The effects of emotional content and aging on false memories. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 4, 1-9. pdf
Kensinger EA & Corkin S (2004). Two routes to emotional memory: Distinct processes for valence and arousal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 101, 3310-3315. pdf
O'Kane G*, Kensinger EA*, & Corkin S (2004). Evidence for semantic learning in profound amnesia: An investigation with patient H.M. Hippocampus, 14, 417-425. (*equal authorship) pdf
Skotko B, Kensinger EA, Locascio JJ, Einstein JG, Rubin DC, Tupler LA, Krendl AC, & Corkin S (2004). Puzzling thoughts for H.M.: Can new semantic memories be anchored to old semantic memories? Neuropsychology, 18, 756-769. pdf
1999-2003
2003
Kensinger EA, Clarke RJ, & Corkin S (2003). What neural correlates underlie successful encoding and retrieval? A functional magnetic resonance imaging study using a divided attention paradigm. Journal of Neuroscience, 23, 2407-2415. pdf
Kensinger EA & Corkin (2003). Alzheimer Disease. In Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. London: Macmillian, Ltd. pdf
Kensinger EA & Corkin S (2003). Effect of divided attention on the memory benefit for negative as compared to neutral words. Brain and Cognition, 51, 223-225. pdf
Kensinger EA & Corkin S (2003). Effect of negative emotional content on working memory and long-term memory. Emotion, 3, 378-393. pdf
Kensinger EA & Corkin S (2003). Memory enhancement for emotional words: Are emotional words more vividly remembered than neutral words? Memory and Cognition, 31, 1169-1180. pdf
Kensinger EA & Corkin (2003). Neural Changes in Aging. In Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. London: Macmillian, Ltd. pdf
Kensinger EA, Shearer DK, Growdon JH, & Corkin S (2003). Working memory in mild Alzheimer’s disease and early Parkinson’s disease. Neuropsychology, 17, 230-239. pdf
Kensinger EA, Siri S, Cappa SF, & Corkin S (2003). Role of the anterior temporal lobe in repetition and semantic priming: Evidence from a patient with a category-specific deficit. Neuropsychologia, 41(1), 71–84. pdf
Siri S, Kensinger EA, Cappa SF, Hood KL, & Corkin S (2003). Questioning the living-nonliving dichotomy: Evidence from a patient with an unusual semantic dissociation. Neuropsychology, 17, 630-645. pdf
2002
Abstracts from Emotion and the Brain 12th Annual Rotman Research Institution Conference. pdf
Corkin, S. What's new with the amnesic patient H.M.?. Nat Rev Neurosci 3, 153–160 (2002). link
Kensinger EA, Brierley B, Medford N, Growdon JH, & Corkin S (2002). Effects of normal aging and Alzheimer’s disease on emotional memory. Emotion, 2, 118-134. link
Schmolck H, Kensinger EA, Corkin S, & Squire LR (2002). Semantic knowledge in patient H.M. and other patients with bilateral and medial and lateral temporal lobe lesions. Hippocampus, 12, 520-533. pdf
2001
Kensinger EA, Ullman MT, & Corkin S (2001). Bilateral medial temporal lobe damage does not prevent the retrieval and use of grammatical or lexical information: evidence from the amnesic patient H.M. Hippocampus, 11, 347-360. pdf
1999
Kensinger EA & Schacter DL (1999). When true memories suppress false memories: Effects of aging. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 16, 399-415. pdf